Bodies and Socio-Histories
19-20 February 2010
Goldsmiths, University of London
Programme of events
FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2010
09:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open.
Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Ground Floor
Morning Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome
Shanu Sadhwani, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair
10:15-10:30 Kathy M. Milazzo
PhD Department of Dance, Film and Theatre
University of Surrey
Black on the Outside: The Guineo in Spain’s Golden Age
10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
10:45-11:00 Elisabetta Bertolino
PhD Candidate School of Law
Birkbeck College
Disembodied bodies
11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
11:15-11:30 Natalia Lebedinskaia
MA Art History Department
Concordia University, Montreal
Body as Spectacle: Morality and Gender in the European
Tradition of Anatomical Displays
11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
11.40-11.50 Short Break
11.50-12.50 Panel Discussion:
With information-technological advances in fields such as medicine, the arts and communication, perceptions of the physicalised body have changed. How has this affected the significance of corporeality in contemporary culture?
Led by Philippa Burt, Goldsmiths, University of London
12.50-13.50 Break for Lunch
Afternoon Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
14:00-14:15 Amanda Roberts
PhD Department of Art and Design
Swansea Metropolitan University
An Examination of the Quantifiable Nature of a Positive Representation of Women
14:15-14:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
14:30-14:45 Aisha Phoenix
PhD Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Role of Dress in Somali Young Women’s Negotiation of Hierarchies of Belonging
14:45-14:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
15:00-15:15 Scheherazaad Cooper
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
Performing Codification: Creating Space and ‘Dressing’ the Female Body in Odissi Indian Classical Dance
15:15-15:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
15:30-15:45 Break for coffee, tea and snacks
15:45-16:00 Marianne Burton
PhD English Department
Royal Holloway, University of London
The Betraying Body in Henry James’s The American : How Cultural and Socio-economic History is Displayed by Characters’ Physical Movement in the Early Novels of Henry James
16:00-16:10 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
16:15-16:30 Laura Malacart
PhD Candidate
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
The News Editor: Rhythm and Pace as Political Critique
16:30-16:40 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
16:45-17:00 Shanu Sadhwani
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
Moving Histories: The Diasporic Body in Faultline
17:00-17:10 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt
17:15 Closing remarks
Arabella Stanger, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair
17:30 Refreshments in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union
Dance Performance Double Bill
Followed by question and answer sessions with the artists
18:30-19:30 Nayika - A Woman in Love
Narrated through Odissi Indian Classical Dance
Performed by Scheherazaad Cooper
Studio 3, Goldsmiths, University of London
19:30-19:45 Short Interval
19.45-20.15 HTAP. Studio nº 3
A dance work with concept and direction by Jorge M. Crecis and movement devising by Daura Hernández García.
Studio 3, Goldsmiths, University of London
20:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union
SATURDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2010
09:45-10:15 Registration and check-in open.
Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Ground Floor
Morning Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre
10:15-10:20 Opening remarks
Arabella Stanger, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair
10:30-10:45 Svea Vikander
PhD Department of Sociology
Concordia University, Montreal
Life Lines: Rupture and Healing in the Personal and Social Body
10:45-10:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
11:00-11:15 Toby Dyter
PhD Fine Art Practice
University of Creative Arts
Beyond Pity: Revaluing the Disabled Body after Nietzsche
11:15-11:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
11:30-11:45 Mattia Marino
PhD School of Languages
University of Salford
Nietzschean Revaluations of Foucauldian Bodies in Baricco’s Silk and Trier’s Manderlay
11:45-11:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
12:00-13:00 Break for Lunch
Afternoon Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
13:00-13:15 Arseli Dokumaci
PhD Department of Film, Theatre and TV Studies
Aberystwyth University
Misfires that Matter: Surveying Socio-Histories through the
Physically Disabled Body
13:15-13:25 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
13:30-13:45 Anja Bajda
PhD Department of Dramaturgy and Performing Arts
Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television
University of Ljubljana
Constrained and Liberated Body: Use and Meanings in Theatrical Space and in the Field of Contemporary Dance in Slovenia
13:45-13:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
14:00-14:15 Rebecca McFadden
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Retreat to the Body: Embodying the Past in Post-Communist Czech Theatre
14:15-14:25 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
14:30-14:45 Philippa Burt
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
‘The actor imagines with his body’: Michael Chekhov’s
Influence on the British Concept of the Performing Body
14:45-14:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
15:00-15:20 Break for coffee, tea and snacks
15:30-15:45 Matt Mahon
PhD School of Politics
Birkbeck, University of London
Embodied Agency and the Production of the Diasporic Political Subject
15:45-15:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
16:00-16:15 Seamus Malone
PhD Candidate
London Consortium
Liquid Dancing in the Space of Flows
16:15-16:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
16:30-16:45 Arabella Stanger
PhD Department of Drama
Goldsmiths, University of London
Remodelling the Harmonious Body: The Organisation of Space in the danse d’école and Rudolf Laban’s Choreutics
16:45-16:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
17:00-18:00 Roundtable discussion
"The body has a dual role of being both a vehicle of perception
and an object perceived." Maurice Merleau-Ponty, (1962)
How does the body hold or describe history both in the individual lived experience and through external observation?
Led by Scheherazaad Cooper, Goldsmiths, University of London
18:00-18:10 Closing Remarks
Shanu Sadhwani, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair
18:15-23:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema
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